"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
The people I choose to love, I love deeply. When reciprocated that love is a wonderful thing. But loving someone who cannot accept that love nor love in return is like a black hole where your deep love continues to get sucked away until you are stripped so bare that you begin to harden by all the negativity, hate and selfishness the world is consumed by.
To love is to be vulnerable. As deeply as I have loved, my heart has been torn, shredded and mutilated beyond recognition. It has been taken and hidden, locked away and thrown in a dark and lonesome basement only to resurface from its captor by the grace of God. But oh, how wonderful is God's grace that after such treatment my heart would ever be able to feel and love once more!
Now I know I must guard my heart and love less freely, even some of those in my closest and innermost circles. But to give up on them and stop loving completely? Never! I must not stop loving those who hate, despise or treat me poorly for they do not know Love and are incapable of anything but hatred and criticism. I shall love them all the same and perhaps those who cannot understand me even more, with the hope that one day they will finally realize what love is and that they themselves will choose to love as well. How I long for that day to come! How I wish that day were today.
- An Adventurous Soul
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